On Sunday 22 January 2006 12:49 pm, David Greaves wrote:

Just FYI
I am running the *stock* 2.6.15 and get the same problems (ata timeouts
etc)

I recently wrote to the lkml and ide lists following up an old post.
No replies yet.

I run sata_via and sata_sil
(I've seen just a few people with these problems - various kernels -
all, to my recollection, seem to have two sets of sata controller
chips.... I wonder....)

I note you say the *sid* kernel doesn't have these problems so I'll try
that. I just wanted to mention that the problem may exist on stock
kernels 'cos you talk about rolling your own...

David! you are right!

It does not work with the debian sid 2.6.15 kernel. You were far more 
observant than I. I thought that my 2 raids were working with the debian 
2.6.15 but in fact it one of the drives had failed out of the  array (thats 
why it seemed to work, I hadn't slept enough...).

In fact your diagnosis is completely correct. I cannot get both sata_via and 
sata_promise up at the same time, without timeout problems. 

I am hereby switching exclusively to sata_promise as I can install multiple 
cards on the same machine.

Mitchell

David


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